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报喜不报忧
bào​xǐ​bù​bào​yōu

to report only good news

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
报喜不报忧 報喜不報憂 bào​xǐ​bù​bào​yōu
to report only good news
To report only the good news and hold back the bad; to sweep unpleasant news under the carpet.

Frequency

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0.307 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)